Megalotica holombra
Megalotica holombra is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Edward Meyrick in 1899. It is endemic to the Hawaiian volcano Haleakalā on the island of Maui.[1]
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It is almost entirely brown with a bronze reflection. The lines on the forewings are not strongly marked, and the hindwings and under surfaces of the wings are concolorous.[1]
Robert Cyril Layton Perkins (1913) noted: "this conspicuous dark-coloured, day-flying moth, of which two specimens are recorded, I observed in hundreds, if not thousands on one occasion, flying in the forest on Maui, but being always hampered with a gun and much occupied with birds, I neglected to catch a series and did not again have the chance."[2]
References
- Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1958). Insects of Hawaii. Vol. 7 Macrolepidoptera. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. hdl:10125/7336.
- Perkins, Robert Cyril Layton (1913). Introductory essay on the fauna. Princeton University: University Press. pp. xxxix.
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